Talking Robots: Yoky Matsuoka

In the latest Talking
Robots podcast we interview Yoky Matsuoka, head
of the Neurobotics
Laboratory at the University of
Washington in Seattle. Combining robotics with neuroscience,
Matsuoka has constructed an Anatomically
Correct Testbed hand (ACT) using passive compliant materials coupled
with simple control algorithms rather than traditional materials. Apart
from serving as a testbed for scientific studies of the neuro-control of
movement, Matsuoka is also working on future applications in
tele-manipulation and prosthetics. For more on this and other projects
conducted at her lab listen
in.